Table II.

Gene profiling of BAL cells from CR vs. CS asthma by real-time PCR

Classification	Mean CR asthma±SE*	Mean CS asthma±SE*	Fold induction in CR/CS asthma	P value
IL-6	503±172	7.2±1.9	69.9	0.0007
CXCL8 (IL-8)	2740±847	10.4±1.6	263.5	0.0006
CCL3	25.9±9.1	4.2±1.7	6.2	0.0379
CXCL3	14.2±3.3	3.8±1.3	3.74	0.0175
CCL4	13.2±5.8	3.3±1.3	4.0	0.0379
CXCL2	13.2±3.5	4.1±1.2	3.22	0.0530
CXCL1	8.4±4.0	2.5±1.3	3.36	0.1282
early growth response 1	14.8±3.9	2.2±0.6	6.73	0.0006
molecule possessing ankyrin repeats induced by LPS (MAIL)	10.5±3.5	2.8±0.8	3.75	0.0262
dual specificity phosphatase 2	34.3±17.0	0.8±0.4	42.88	0.0041
TNF alpha-induced protein 3	11911±4214	1849±389	2.37	0.0379

^*Mean signal intensity±SEM ng of the target mRNA/ng 18s RNA of 7 additional BAL samples from CR asthmatics and 7 additional BAL samples from CS asthmatics